On Sunday, March 8, the annual Screen Actors Guild awards
will be presented in Los Angeles.

Monday, March 9, is the deadline for motions in Microsoft's
appeal of an injunction restricting distribution of its
browser program.

On Tuesday, March 10, the manslaughter trial of FBI
sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi, charged in the death of white
separatist Randy Weaver's wife during the 1992 siege at Ruby
Ridge, begins in Idaho.

On Wednesday, March 11, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announces the nominees for the Daytime Emmy Awards.

On Thursday, March 12, the first annual Europe Conference will be held in London.

On this day

In 1080, Pope Gregory VII deposed Henry IV as King of Germany
over the investiture of bishops and appointed Rudolf of Swabia.

In 1793, the ruling Convention in France declared war on Spain during the Revolution.

In 1809, Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, French adventurer,
died. With John Jeffries, he was the first man to cross the
English channel by balloon. Also inventor of the parachute, he died in Paris shortly after falling from his balloon at The Hague.

In 1814, Napoleon with a force of 37,000 defeated 90,000
Prussians under Bluecher at the Battle of Craonne in France.

In 1821, the Austrians with a force of 80,000, trying to
restore Ferdinand IV to the throne in Naples, heavily defeated a force of 12,000 Neapolitans under Pepe at the Battle of Rieti.

In 1838, Jenny Lind, famed operatic soprano, known as the
"Swedish Nightingale," made her debut in Weber's opera "Der
Freischuetz."

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his
invention of the telephone.

In 1917, the world's first jazz record, "The Dixie Jazz Band
One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jazz
Band, was released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey.

In 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian
Communist Party.

In 1932, French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, who won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, died.

In 1936, Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the
Locarno Pact by re-occupying the demilitarized zone of
Rhineland.

In 1942, in World War II, the British evacuated Rangoon, having completed all essential demolition. The Japanese entered the city the next day.

In 1945, the U.S. 9th Armored Division captured and crossed
the key bridge over the Rhine at Remagen in Germany, which
helped shorten World War II.

In 1951, Iranian Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated
by a religious fanatic in a mosque in Tehran.

In 1965, West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard said West
Germany would seek to establish diplomatic relations with
Israel.

In 1973, the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a
landslide victory in Bangladesh's first general election.